"These funds will enable us to save lives, to assist families who lost everything in gradually restoring their livelihoods, to prevent deadly epidemics, and to help children get back to school," UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Relief John Holmes said in a statement.

The money will go towards 48 projects to be carried out around the country by seven UN agencies.

Money already committed has enabled the UN and its partners to provide clean water to more than a million people and shelter to 200,000 homeless.

About 50 people were killed in a cholera outbreak resulting from the floods in the north-east of the country, the World Health Organization says.